Review Submitted By: Another Mindless Anonymous
Author Status: Player
Started on Accursed Lands: About 2004.
Submission Date: Jun 23, 2009
TMC Listing: Accursed Lands
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Another Mindless Anonymous]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Accursed Lands used to be a hardcore RP challenge, as they claim when
you log in. However, their ancient rule has fallen through
carelessness. Standards eventually gave way with times, and you're
left with another antique game. In short, I do not recommend playing
this game to new players.
A unique system coated with intrigue and fair play was overtaken by a
personal agenda, holder unknown. The great magic system was slowly
changed (or lacked change to balance change elsewhere) to rubbish.
Mages were at a severe disadvantage as it were, needing an immense
amount of luck and forethought to compete at all. Magic, however, is
canceled when the mage is hit in any way, aside from magic sometimes,
and with quicker load times on ranged weapons, overly quick melee
races, or the option of a horse to the slower races, some of these
seeing a disadvantage to ranged weaponry as well, mages are almost
entirely just a thought of the past.
Aside from the combat system imbalances, roleplaying is in shambles
as well. Ranging from an outright lack or roleplay from certain
players to others not following strict guidelines for how their race
will act, the original aspect is lost in this virtue as well, and
often immersion is impossible.
Ultimately, all failures, including the last, come from the top. Many
players go unpunished for blatant cheating, ranging from communicating
IC information in OOC channels to creators giving the location of
players to other players so they may hunt down their enemies
mercilessly, making the game much less fun for those not on the
inside.
Lastly, due to the fact that I have reason to believe that one of the
admins is supporting this behavior (having rebooted the game, forcing
a corpse to disappear and removing his chance at resurrecting) after a
handful of people attempted to bring him to life, only to have a large
amount of people over time march into the room and either remove
reagents required or attempt to steal the body.
As stated prior, I do not recommend you play this game. I would sooner
suggest wielding a stapler against yourself to save yourself some time
at gaining the potential annoyance this game will cause you.
Signed,
Mindless, Once-Loyal Five-Year Player
